WCRI released its 2018 CompScope™ Benchmarks, 18th Edition. The studies analyze workers’ compensation claims data over a period of years and examine trends in the average total cost per workers’ compensation claim and the components in a given state. According to the Louisiana CompScope™, since 2012, Louisiana’s total costs per claim grew 4.4 percent per year compared to the 2.9 percent per year median of WCRI’s 18 study states. WCRI notes that for all key claim cost components Louisiana grew at a faster rate than other states. The same factors that WCRI has cited before as “persistent drivers” of costs were true for this edition of the study: “longer duration of temporary disability, lump-sum settlements, hospital outpatient payments, and most benefit delivery expense components – especially payments to defense attorneys.”

MENU

CONNECT

About LA Comp Blog

Louisiana Comp Blog’s fresh and original content ranges from features and profiles of industry leaders to commentary/opinion articles and event coverage. We also publish a daily Comp News Bulletin every morning, which allows our readers to get a head start on their day with the top three to five stories affecting Louisiana’s workers’ comp industry on both the local and national scale. All of this makes us your one-stop source for the best workers’ comp reporting from across Louisiana.